THE STATE OF BEING explores the transformation of identity through memory, motherhood and the emotional landscapes inherited across generations.
The project investigates the female experience not as a fixed identity, but as a continuous state of becoming. Through fragmented interiors, childlike symbols and psychologically charged figures, the paintings examine the relationship between past and present — between the child one once was and the person one becomes.
Motherhood becomes a space of profound transformation: a state in which personal memories, fears, desires and inherited emotional patterns resurface. Rather than presenting motherhood as an idealized experience, the works approach it as a complex psychological condition, containing both vulnerability and strength, intimacy and uncertainty.
Objects associated with childhood — birthday celebrations, toys, domestic spaces and gestures of care — become symbols of time, memory and the construction of identity. They are not nostalgic images of the past, but unstable emotional territories where personal and collective experiences overlap.
The paintings exist between reality and subconscious experience. Through intense colour, disrupted perspectives and ambiguous spaces, they create environments where memories are continuously rewritten.
The project reflects on a universal human question: how do our earliest experiences shape who we become, and how do we transform ourselves while carrying the traces of those who came before us?
